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Basically, I'm interested in knowing who your ten favorite anime composers are since I'm looking to begin writing an article series about that topic and showcase some of the music they've written over the years. If you guys can give me your two cents on the matter, that'd be great!

A few ground rules: when I say anime composers, any composer whoís written any music for anime (including OPs/EDs/insert songs) qualifies. That was easy, wasnít it? Basically, the only vocalists that are permissible for this are those who actually compose music. Obviously the extent to which you enjoy their music is important and will probably be the primary criterion by which you assemble your list. You can also consider other things like their quantity of work theyíve done. But when you put together your list, do rank order them from most favorite to tenth favorite. Nothing more needs to be done, but you are welcome to add comments about why you chose X person.

Lastly, do try to come up with ten. I specifically stress the word try, because itís perfectly OK if you arenít able to come up with that many. If youíre stuck, it does help to look through some of your favorite shows and see who composed their music, but if all else fails, just list one, or two, or five. Thatís totally fine. Do fill this out by December 31, 2010 because that's when I'll begin tabulating.

S.E.N.S. wrote a lot of touching music for several Japanese dramas I've watched, and probably a few animes as well.

Yuki Kajiura is probably the only composer that I will actually search for anime that features her music. She can turn even total crap (*cough* Tsubasa Chronicle) into something truly remarkable. I think I've seen just about every anime that features her music.

Toshihiko Sahashi is another one of my favorites who I know mostly from the Gundam Seed, Full Metal Panic!, and Hunter X Hunter series

I'm only vaguely familiar with Yoko Kanno, but from what I remember her music was good in Cowboy Bebop and Wolf's Rain.

So far my faves are Iwasaki Taku (his Soul Eater soundtrack was awesome) and Sato Naoki. Sato is half responsible for me falling in love very hard with Sword of the Stranger very hard, and it's a plus that he did the soundtrack for one of my favourite J-dramas, too, the music in it is indeed just as epic as SOTS's.

If we were including J-Drama composers as well I would probably have an entirely different top 10. Kono Shin would probably take my #1 spot.

Spoiler for 世界の中心で、愛をさけぶ 朔と亜紀:

This song nearly made me cry the first time I heard it in that drama.

I wasn't including J-drama composers, I was just saying Sato Naoki who is obviously an anime composer also happened to have done my favourite J-drama OST He did the epic SOTS soundtrack and it shows here in his theme for the drama Ryomaden!

If you have the time, please post your Top 10 Anime Songs for the year 2010 at the Greatest Anime Songs thread. I would like to have your inputs for my year-end list. Thanks!

Jeebus, that's quite the list! And I actually recognize all but 4 :3

But yeah, I'll probably be doing a post related to my top 10 anison too, so I'll probably toss that in soonish. Well, I'll be focusing on more BGM-y goodness since that's more my kinda thing, but there are quite a few strong OP/EDs even if there aren't killer killer OP/EDs...

I don't like Yoko Kanno and Shiro Sagisu since I'm not into their western influenced music--not into Jazz, Blues from Yoko Kanno; not impressed at all with Eva OST, a few tracks were epic but overplayed and much of the rest was too simple and cartoony and the country music bits seemed out of place.

It's true that I haven't heard as much as janfive, but I have to say that not a lot of artists have amazed me enough to peak my interest in them. Therefore, my list is incredibly short...

01. Kenji Kawai
02. Joe Hisaishi

...those are the only two that really influenced my opinion on anime music and it's qualities. Especially Kawai's dark atmospheric melodies in Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell. Other than that, I really loved Nakawaga Koutarou's OST for Hayate no Gotoku. Sure, Kotoko did a good job with the OP/ED, but it's just generic J-Pop stuff, not really interested in that. And of course, Hasegawa Tomoki made a few very nice melodies for Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. But neither is as notable as the two aforementioned composers.